Op-Ale

Brewed by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)
Style: Belgian Ale
Opwijk, Belgium

An amber beer with a fine head. The aroma is light, but sweet malty with notes of caramel. The flavor is malty with notes of caramel and oranges - quite boring. And the body is thin as water.

(Bottle 25 cl) Amber beer with a beautiful retentive head. Appears watery in the beginning but then you’re hit by some dry, floral hoppiness. Nice and refreshing - and no stronger than pils, as the label says. Same family as palm and de Koninck. 300695

Bottled. Clear pale ameber,small head. Sugar aroma. Burning saccharine sweetness hardly leaves any room for the underlying fruits and raisin. The mouthfeel is clean and hard, and there’s candi sugar in the finish. My senses are overloaded with all that saccharine...

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow to orange with a slowly collapsing off-white head. Spiced and mild mouldy aroma. Flavour is dry malt, light yeasty, vague metallic note and spiced towards a bitter finish. Belgian kinda pilsner.

Bottle. Clear light to medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, moderate yeasty, bubble gum, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. (091207)

Bottle, 5%. Quite hoppy aroma, fruity and flowery, but with a hint of sewer. Clear dark amber colour. The flavour starts off with a hint of said hoppiness, but quickly turns uninteresting and sourly/roughly bitter. Rough and sewery.

Bottled. amberish copper colour, beige bubbly head, which last for a long time. Aroma is a lot of malts and caramel with some hops in finish. Flavour is metallic, malty, bready and grassy. The finish is dry and bitter hops, and stays for long in the aftertaste. Pleasantly done. Almost like a British bitter to the flavour.

Amber ale, light malt aroma. Nice malt and hop in the taste, good final.